Commencement 2013

CONWAY, Ark.
(April 29, 2013) – Hendrix College will celebrate its 129th Commencement
on Saturday, May 11 at 9 a.m. in the Wellness and Athletics Center (WAC).

Hendrix Provost
and English professor Dr. Robert L. Entzminger will be the commencement
speaker.

The ceremony
will be held in the WAC event gym. Additional seating will be available in the
Recreation Gym and in the Student Life and Technology Center (SLTC), where the
ceremony will be telecast. The graduates
will process through the Recreation Gym, and the ensemble will be playing there
as well, with their music broadcast into the Event Gym.

A reception
will follow in the Nannie Worsham Performance Hall of the SLTC and (weather
permitting) on the East Patio of the SLTC.

Founded in
1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences
education. For the fifth consecutive year, Hendrix was named one of the
country’s “Up and Coming” liberal arts colleges by U.S. News and World Report. Hendrix is featured in the 2012 edition
of the Princeton Review as one of the country’s best 377 colleges, the latest
edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change
the Way You Think about Colleges, Forbes
magazine's annual list of America's Top 650 Colleges, and the 2013 edition of the Fiske Guide
to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist
Church since 1884. For
more information, visit www.hendrix.edu.